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Permalink Reply by einsteinagogo on September 5, 2024 at 10:38am

Okay, answering my own post, just in case someone else has this issue.

So the root account is locked. So boot off a Centos 7 LiveCDROM, select troubleshooting, Troubleshooting mode does not find the installation so don't bother.

Enter a shell.

and chroot to /dev/sda7

then when you have a bash shell, passwd root

give root a password, this overcomes the lock, then you can check using journal the issue.

In my case, it was /dev/sda6, which needed to have xfs_repair run on it.

This stopped the server from booting.

Regards

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